Originally Posted by
CrowSeph
By looking at YouTube and other places seems there is a new fashion to update the parts on an old mountain bike, i was thinking that's was the right way to restore , but you guys made me re evaluate a maintainitive type of restoration. I'll disassembly, check the parts and just in case swapping the parts don't work anymoreanymore.
Thanks as always everyone for the help , but if you have info or advice regarding this bike keep posting. Cheers
There's nothing new about modernizing old bikes. Sometimes people do it, sometimes they don't. I think it makes sense for you to fix it up and ride it for a while before sinking money into it. You may find that the existing parts (plus any replacements that may be needed) work well for your purposes. I have two stumpjumpers. One is from 1988 and I've only replaced parts as needed. It is my primary commuter. The other is a 1992 Stumpjumper and I did a drop bar conversion to turn it into a gravel bike. Again I used as many of the old parts as I could.
